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‘Shubman Gill, Harry Brook…..’: Kane Williamson Name Drops New Fab Four
Follow UsVirat Kohli, Steve Smith, Joe Root and Kane Williamson were originally hailed as cricket’s first-ever Fab Four
Back in 2014, cricket fans coined the first-ever ‘Fab Four’, where there were Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson, Steve Smith and Joe Root, who were all prolific across the three formats. Not only did the four score runs at a crazy rate, but they were also successful in lifting plenty of trophies, establishing a dynasty.
However, now that the Fab Four is slowly fading away, due to the retirement in one format or the other, including that of Kohli, who hung up his boots from the red-ball format. It has now left the cricket fans hungry for the next generation of Fab Four, with Williamson naming the four cricketers who he thinks will carry the legacy.
“The players that come to mind in terms of multi-format are: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rachin Ravindra, Harry Brook. And also Cam Green,” Williamson Told The Cricket Monthly.
“Those are all outstanding players and have shown fantastic moments in all formats. All young and their games are just growing,” he added.
Williamson also felt grateful that he was brought up in the ‘red-ball era’, stating that batting long and time has become quite a rare thing in modern-day cricket.
“I feel personally grateful that I was brought up in that red-ball era. It’s still there, but I mean the T20 format is so prominent now, where the volume that you play is so high. So the opportunity to bat long, but also the opportunity to really go through those different problem-solving elements in the game [is not there],” he added.
Amongst the predicted Fab Four as well, Ravindra is yet to establish himself in the red-ball format, Brook hasn’t yet cemented his place in T20Is, similar to Shubman Gill. Williamson added that batters are most often than not problem-solving in Tests against the white-ball formats.
“You are playing a game for five days, it challenges you in every aspect, your ability to focus, to be patient, your temperament to adjust a plan… and you can get exposed in a big way in the red-ball game. So you are always trying to problem-solve. And the conditions change a lot more in red-ball cricket. So there’s these elements that you don’t necessarily get, and certainly not [in the same] volume, in the white-ball game,” he added.